Sweeney

Thomas Lynch

SWEENY: Ah! Now the gallows trap has opened that drops the strongest to the ground!

LYNCHSEACHAN: Sweeney, now you are in my hands, I can heal these father’s wounds: your family has fed no grave, all your people are alive.

Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray

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